Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan arrived in Canberra on November 29 (Photo VNA)Canberra (VNA) – Chairwoman of theNational Assembly of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan arrived in Canberra onNovember 29, starting her official visit to Australia.
The relations between Vietnam and Australia havegrown rapidly and effectively in recent years, especially since theestablishment of bilateral comprehensive partnership in 2009 and the signing ofa declaration on enhancing Vietnam-Australia comprehensive partnership in March2015.
Australia considers Vietnam a key partner in theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and highly values the role ofVietnam in the bloc.
Currently, Australia is the eighth biggest tradepartner of Vietnam with two-way trade growing by 10 percent each year to reach over5 billion USD in 2016.
So far, Australia has injected 1.7 billion USDin 378 projects, ranking 19th among 115 countries and territories investing inVietnam.
Australia is one of the largest providers ofnon-refundable official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam with over 130million AUD per year in 2010-2015.
The two countries have strong cooperation ineducation, labour, tourism, and science-technology.
Along with the sound relations between the twocountries, the rapports between the Vietnamese and Australian parliaments aredeveloping. The ongoing visit to Australia by NA Chairwoman Ngan is expected topromote the comprehensive partnership with Australia, towards the strategicpartnership in 2018.
The visit also looks to beef up cooperative tiesbetween Vietnam’s National Assembly and Australia’s Senate and House ofRepresentatives as well as enhance bilateral cooperation in potential fieldssuch as economics, trade, development cooperation, agriculture, education,science-technology, environment-natural resources, tourism, culture andpeople-to-people exchanges.-VNA
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